Export processing zones in Mexico along the U.S. border; associated with
poor working, living and environmental conditions.

Marginal analysis

the analytical approach (in microeconomics) which stresses the importance
of the margins of an activity: what happens to the costs, benefits
(utility, profits) or combination of substitutable facets or activities as
incremental changes are made to an independent
variable e.g. in search of an equilibrium (a maximum, minimum or optimum).

Marginal cost

the addition to total cost resulting from the addition of the last unit of
output (to the total quantity of output)
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the rate at which the consumer is willing to substitute one good for
another (without loss or gain of satisfaction, see also "indifference
curve"); or

the rate at which factor inputs can be exchanged in a production
process without a change in the production (output) level. (see also
"isoquant")

Market forces

refer to the stimuli and influences affecting the supply and demand of
goods and services and thereby
determine the allocation of resources and the relative prices of
goods, services, and assets in a market economy.

Ratio between the sum of the weights of the localized materials and
the weight
of the final product. A material index which is larger than one signifies
a "material orientation" of the location of production; see also
"weight-loss ratio" [Goodall, p.294; Hayter, p.114]

One of Senge's five learning disciplines for the learning
organization:
"reflecting upon, and continually clarifying, and improving our internal
pictures of the world, and seeing how they shape our actions and
decisions."
(Senge et al., Fieldbook, p.6)

The Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) is an ambitious economic
integration project involving Argentina, Brazil,
Paraguay and Uruguay (=MERCOSUR 4). Since 1997: also Bolivia and Chile
(=MERCOSUR 6)..

History: In the 1970s, Uruguay strengthened its commercial relationship
with Brazil
by way of the Commercial Expansion Protocol
(PEC), and with Argentina by way of the Argentine-Uruguayan Economic
Cooperation Agreement (CAUCE).

Between 1984 and 1989 Argentina and Brazil signed twenty-four bilateral
protocols with the purpose of improving trade.

Integration efforts date back to 1985 when the Foz de Iguazz Declaration
was signed creating the High Level Bilateral
Commission for the integration of Argentina and Brazil.

Around the end of 1990, Argentina and Brazil signed, and registered with
, an Agreement on Economic Cooperation
(Acuerdo de Complementacisn Econsmica) that systematized and deepened
pre-existing bilateral commercial agreements.
Around mid-1990, representatives of both countries met with authorities of
Uruguay and Paraguay. It was then that these two
countries expressed their wish to participate in the bilateral
process already underway.

On March 26, 1991 the Treaty of Asuncisn was signed by the four countries.
This Treaty should not be seen as the final
creation treaty of the Common Market of the South, but as an instrument,
of international character, intended to make the
implementation of the Common Market possible.

The Treaty of Asuncisn is an economic integration agreement, which
remains open to other ALADI members.

By virtue of what is established in Article 10 of Annex I of the Treaty of
Asuncisn, on November 29, 1991, the four
countries signed an Agreement of Economic Cooperation under the legal
framework of ALADI.

concerned with the "study of what goes
on
inside the black box" (i.e. the artifact of classical
micro-economic theory of the firm). See Leibenstein, Journ. of Econ.Lit.
June 1979, p.478.

Milestones

Subprojects into which a project is broken up (to
be able to monitor development progress and adhere to deadlines.
milestone stabilizations: while there may be some freedom to make
changes to the design of an evolving product, there is a need to adhere
to intermittent milestone deadlines. [see Cusumano & Selby, p.415)

Strictly speaking factor mobility does not only refer to spatial
mobility, but mobility between different uses or occupations of
factors of production (Land, labor, Capital etc.). As such "land" may be
mobile in the sense that its use may change; labor may
be "mobile" (or immobile) in the sense that it can (or cannot) move
between occupations. Our interest as geographers would
typically focus on the often implied spatial nature of such mobility; of
course, you are right if you suggest that land is not mobile
spatially. See Goodall, p.166

A Multiplier is a numerical coefficient which relates the change of a
component of aggregate demand (such as the export demand for a region's
products) to a consequent change in income [or employment] (in this case:
regional income or [employment]).
In the case of the regional employment
multiplier we relate the change of employment in the region's
export sectors to the
consequent changes in employment in those ("non-basic") sectors which are
facing a change in household demand as a (direct and indirect) result of
changes in employment and income in the export sectors.